St. Patrick’s Day Craft: Leprechaun Pillow Box

There’s a long weekend coming up at the end of the week, so when you aren’t celebrating the ones you love on Valentine’s Day, and if you are looking for a little something to do with the kids, make something crafty for St. Patrick’s Day.

I’ve got a simple paper craft project for you that the kids will love to make, or receive.

Here’s a few things you can do with these:

Make them for your kids and leave on their pillow St. Patrick’s Day morning when they wake up filled with small treats, lucky pennies, or a gold coin.
Have your kids make them for their friends or neighbors and pop a few lucky pennies in each or a little treat.
Make a few and hide them around the house or yard, each filled with a different treasure, and leave clues for the kids on where to find them. This could keep them occupied for hours.

Leprechaun Pillow Box

What you need:

paper roll
colored paper or card stock – green, orange, light brown, black, gold
glue
scissors
googly eyes
Sharpie
And of course treats or coins to fill them.

Here are the instructions to make them:

Step 1.

Roll green paper around the paper roll, attaching it using glue. Wrap a strip of patterned paper around just one end using glue.

Step 2.

Fold in the edges of your paper roll so that they overlap, turning your paper roll into a pillow box.

Step 3.

Trace around the end of a paper roll and cut out the circle, attaching it with glue to make the face. Using that same circle shape, sketch the shape of a beard to match, cutting that out, attaching it with glue, and then cutting the edge into a fringe (see pictures above).

Step 4:

Attach a black band and gold square to the top of the pillow box for the hat. Cut a thin green strip of paper, folding it in half and glue one side just above the face to make a small brim for the hat.

Step 5:

Attach googly eyes and draw on the nose and mouth using a Sharpie.

Step 6:

Fill your little leprechaun pillow box.

Hope you enjoy making this fun St. Patrick’s Day craft.

Tonya

About Tonya Staab

Tonya Staab is a freelance writer and the creative mind behind Create-Celebrate-Explore, a lifestyle blog that inspires parents to craft, cook, travel, and celebrate every day with their children.